In the locker room.
Due to the power outage, none of the lockers were locked.
Qi Xiao opened each locker to search through them, first in the men's changing room, then in the women's.
In the end, he collected two towels, a pink yoga mat, and a mechanical watch.
Qi Xiao put everything into a handbag he'd just found, climbed the stairs back to his train car, and adjusted the watch against the time shown on the screen.
After three minutes of comparison, confirming there was no discrepancy between the watch and the screen time, Qi Xiao felt relieved.
Good, with this watch, he wouldn't have to worry about missing the train's departure during future explorations.
It was now nine-fifty, and the train would depart in just over an hour.
In the gym, only the metal weights were left to move.
And those weights were exactly the materials needed for upgrading.
Qi Xiao clicked upgrade, which showed he could designate any area in the train car as a material input zone.
The upgrade required materials were:
[Metal: 300kg/0]
[Plastic: 150kg/0]
[Wood: 100kg/0]
Through the screen, he could freely designate areas within the initial train car as input zones.
Qi Xiao marked out an input zone and threw in an empty plastic bottle, which immediately disappeared.
The plastic collection progress reached 0.02kg.
Qi Xiao looked at the gym equipment outside - perfect upgrade materials!
......
At eleven o'clock, the train departed right on schedule.
Panting heavily, Qi Xiao leaned against the train car wall, sitting on the yoga mat.
"Damn it, why did that gym have to be so big..."
The metal dumbbells he could carry were furthest from the stairs, and with all the climbing up and down, he only managed to bring back some small dumbbells in an hour.
Qi Xiao set the entrance area as the input zone and threw in the dumbbells he'd brought.
After throwing these dumbbells into the input zone, the metal requirement was fully satisfied, even exceeding the target.
Current material collection progress:
[Metal: 300kg/400kg]
[Plastic: 150kg/5kg]
[Wood: 100kg/0kg]
He put the remaining dumbbells aside, not rushing to throw them all in.
The 9999+ chat room was active.
[Where's everyone's first stop? I'm stuck in a grassland, nothing but grass everywhere.]
[I'm in a rental apartment, only found some cookies and a few clothes.]
[Don't throw just anything into the input zone! I tried it - stuff doesn't disappear like metal and wood!]
[Bro, what did you throw in?]
[I took a huge dump. By the way, anyone got toilet paper to trade?]
[Awesome, bro's spirit of rule exploration is admirable! Here's a tree leaf for you!]
This guy was truly something else.
Compared to them, he was quite lucky.
He'd secured thirty-eight bottles of water and collected quite a bit of upgrade materials.
[Any ladies offering used items? Will trade food.]
[Don't survival games always have pretty girls trading underwear for food? Come on out.]
[Young man, I have some.]
[Damn, you're old enough to be my grandma. I said pretty girls, read carefully!]
[Brother, would a cute femboy work?]
Since it was the first day, everyone seemed to lack a sense of crisis.
Qi Xiao shook his head and opened the trading platform.
He needed to trade for food - water alone wouldn't cut it.
He listed half a bottle of mineral water, requesting instant noodles in exchange.
A light circle appeared in the train car.
Qi Xiao placed the mineral water in the circle, and after a flash of light, it vanished.
Three minutes later, the screen showed a successful trade.
Qi Xiao clicked to collect.
The light flashed again, and a pack of instant noodles appeared on the ground.
A convenient trading function indeed.
......
[The train will arrive soon, please hold on tight.]
Huh? Second day already?
Qi Xiao woke up to the announcement, pulled off the towel covering his stomach, and sat up from the yoga mat.
Yesterday, being the first day, he'd gone to bed early due to mental tension and exhaustion from moving dumbbells.
Qi Xiao got up and went to the train car screen to check information about this stop.
[Current Station: Shayin Town (Single-person station)]
[This station has large cactus forests with vipers present. Danger Level: 1]
Vipers, danger level 1?
Qi Xiao had heard of these - basically all of them were venomous.
One bite would probably end his journey.
As soon as he opened the car door, a wave of hot air hit his face.
So hot.
An endless desert stretched before his eyes. Qi Xiao stepped out of the car, shading his eyes with his hand.
Squinting, he could indeed see a large cactus forest not far away.
Purple-red fruits grew on top of the cacti.
Prickly pears!
Thinking about the sweet juice of prickly pears made Qi Xiao's mouth water.
But remembering the possible presence of vipers made him calm down.
"Men die in pursuit of wealth, as birds die in pursuit of food."
Qi Xiao sighed deeply, grabbed the handbag he'd found in the gym yesterday, and left the train car, walking toward the cactus forest.
Vipers usually come out at night; they should be inactive during such high daytime temperatures.
Qi Xiao consoled himself with this thought.
......
"Wow, so sweet!"
Qi Xiao picked a prickly pear, peeled off the purple-red skin, and took a bite. The rich juice burst in his mouth.
It tasted much better than dragon fruit.
Under the blazing sun, Qi Xiao became a fruit picker, harvesting ripe prickly pears.
With the handbag full, he carried it back to the train car.
Nine thirty-five, still an hour and a half until departure.
He could make another trip, but the remaining fruits were too high to reach.
If only he had a knife.
Qi Xiao opened the trading platform and searched for a machete.
After a flash of light, he eventually traded half a pound of prickly pears for a rusty chopping knife.
Though rusty with some nicks in the blade, he couldn't be picky at this point.
Qi Xiao dumped the prickly pears in the back of the car, then set out again with the knife and empty bag.
In the cactus forest.
Qi Xiao swung the knife, carefully avoiding the fallen tall cacti while collecting prickly pears.
Checking his watch - ten-thirty - he picked up his half-full bag of fruits and headed back.
Qi Xiao was eating fruit and humming a tune when, just before reaching the train car, he stopped in his tracks.
Gulp.
He swallowed hard.
Not far from the train car door, a triangular-headed snake was flicking its tongue in his direction.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
